Beneath its surface is something pricklier, sadder, and smarter: a portrait of the artist as a young manipulator.
) is both insightful and refreshingly straightforward about the way young Sammy Fabelman uses film as a way to master his most primal fears and desires, and the way his mother Mitzi —a would-be concert pianist whose career was sidetracked by stay-at-home motherhood—serves as both his most encouraging cheerleader and his problematic muse. When he sees his first movie in a theater—the 1952 circus melodrama—the sight of a train going off the rails terrifies Sammy into stunned silence.
Like the real-life Spielberg’s father, Sammy’s dad Burt is an electrical engineer involved in the research that will one day lead to the development of the personal computer. Because of Burt’s work, the family moves in Sammy’s late childhood from Cincinnati to Phoenix, accompanied by his father’s colleague and best friend, Bennie . With her husband working long hours, Mitzi becomes isolated and depressed in this new desert environment, her charming eccentricity veering toward mental illness.
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